Omaha daily bee., 1887-10-19
STATE JOTTINGS.

pride and pleasure to u $4,000 school
building now going up.
w. T.. Blakemore, OF Shelton, mourns
the loss OF 500, the result OF an un-
bidden call from burglars.
The campaign is now open in all
quarters and candidates brouse and but
tonhole on every corner.
The prohibition campaign Is uncom-
monty lively in Wahoo. k'ifty-five men
are actively at work laying pipes for
the waterworks.
The new postof1ice building at Ne
braska City grows slowly but substan
italy. 1t is an appropriate monument
to General Van Wyck's energy IN the
senate.
A matrimonial boom promises TO settle
down in Plattsmouth next month. The
cooling of the doves now heard on the
hilltops will soon relapse into squalls in
the valley.
The Nebraska City packing house is
being overhauled and embellished with
new machinery for the winter cam
paign. Slaughtering will begin early
next month.
Among the banners thrown to the In
dian summer breeze in Omaha, the most
affecting and truthful, is that in front
of the Herald Office, "Roasted chestnuts
for sale here"
j. M. Woodson, of Plattsmouth, Was
gone to his old home in Virginia for
chunks of recreation and Joy left by u
deceased uncle. They amount to $35,-
600, and tinge the horizon of his future
IL beautiful crimson.
The United States supreme court has
invited Quin Bohannon to come back
and stick his head in the halter at Ne
braska City. But Quin is wiser than
his advisers. The nocturnal elevation of
Shellenberger has no charms for the
spelling professor.
Chadron is enj oying lively building
boom this fall. Six brick business
houses, all two story and some three
story, n 900 court house, "A 800, 900
school house, a $1,000 church editice,
and no less than eighteen dwellings,
ranging from the $500 cottage to the
$1,000 residenbe are in the hands of the
contractor.
The st. Joe g. Western railroad has
come to the relief of the shippers of
Hastings with a reduced long haul rate
that puts the town on an equal footing
with competitors. This is the first de-
cent concession the town has received
from the railroads, and she has paid
lavishly for fair treatment.
The Stone Ballast Lodge of LOcOmo-
tive Firemen of Plattsmouth are work
| ing up Il vast congregation of distin-
| guishcd disciples of the dance to their
| annual evening out. The date is well
| in the future and the time significant
| Thank sgiving eve-when the members
| will give thanks for the kindly care of
Providence on the journey home from
| Shogo island.
Plattsmouth fears that the Doodle
| honors showered upon O. II. Ballou
will prevent him from occupying his
gorgeous residence now approaching
| completion near that city. There is no
| danger. The generous voters of this
district will never consent to deprive
| Cass county of such Il versatile citizen.
Otis can move Immediately without
marring the solemnity of his political
| funeral.
| A gang of surveyors belonging to the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad are
at work on the western borders of the
state The line they are surveying is
| the much-talkcd-of cattle trail route, to
| run from some point in Texas to Mon
tana territory. AS the chief engineer
| has, up to the present time, always been
identified with the b. Il NJ, it has the
appearance of IA b. & M. deal.
| Engineer Morrison, of the B. & M.
bridge, has invited the people of Ne
braska City to turn out and celebrate
| the laying of the corner stone of the
main pier of the bridge. The invitation
| will be accepted and programme ar
ranged in II few days. The event will
be an important one to that city, es-
pecially as it is the beginning of the end
of the Missouri ferry.
They were discussing the relative
merits of the homemade and imported
| locomotives in the Union Pacific yards.
These new Black Marias of Hackney S
build will prove II failure" said one
hostler, meanwhile mopping up the
sweat which his wisdom created. 81
had S27 up in the hole for exercise,
Sunday, and she stopped in the middle
of the pasture to let her cowcatcher
calf" A vigorous tap of the fireman s
pick laid the hostler in his stall.
William S. Amison, Il Cass county
| farmer, has uncovered the spook that
has haunted him for several months.
Six years ago he buried his wife in Hi
nois. Shortly after he came west, last
spring he received a letter signed
Lulu" his wifes name, upbraiding
him for deserting her, stating that she
was alive and appointing a meeting
place. Several other letters of similar
fearful tenor were received, and at last
he set out to investigate. He went back
to Illinois and found the grave and dust
of his wife undisturbed. Returning to
Table Rook, this state, where the last
letter was mailed, he found a woman
had been there, who represented her.
self as Mrs. AmisOn, and from the de-
scription given resembled the dead wO-
man in life. Amison believes some one
acquainted with his life endeavored tC
play upon his superstitious feeling and
eXtort money from him. The game
failed to work.
| Ella Mitchell Bounced.